Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-19
$ A L E
OF TINE
OLD FAIR GROUND PROPERTY.
One ii Sndred and seyenty.two
Desirable Lots on Wheel
ing Island.

Tx PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE
i Circuit Court OF Ohio county, w. Va, entered
on the Sd day Of June, 1887, in the case Of 0gle
undersigned special commissioner will, on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1887,
beginning at 3 O'Clock q m, sell at public auc
ton, at the front door ofthe Court House Of Ohio
county, West Virginia, the tract Of land belong.
ing TO the Northwest Virginia Agricultural So
ciety, known rs the "0LD FAIR GROUND
PROPERTY, +" situated on Wheeling Island, north
OF Zane street, and west Of North Huron street,
and containing, when measured 70 the top Of the
river bank, twenty-five and twelve hundredthi
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
10 the river.
Under authority OF said decree the said com.
missioners have caused the property 70 be divid,
ed into arcels, and have laid off streets and
alleys through the same. A plat, showing the
arrangement OF blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared. and may be seen at the Office
Of George Hook, Clerk Of the County Court OF
Ohio county. Printed copies Of said plat may
on and after October Isl, be had OF the under.
signed.
The property will frst be offered as a whole,
afterwards in blocks, and then In lots, a. shown
on the plat, and will be sold in whichever way
may appear the most advantageous. When Of.
fered In blocks, the blocks numbered five and
six may be offered together as one parcel. When
offered in lots, two contiguous lots may he offered
together, If bidders 80 desire, II 1.-THE whole tract
Ur tOhu W Oht puIIudHtIt tic btIttft hIlclb hIQ
lots may be disregarded He, in Ench case, be.
comes the purchaser Of the streets and ALLEYS
within the boundaries of the tract.
II any block be sold separately 70 one pur.
chaser, he, Of course, may disregard the lot lines
within the block, but alleys must be opened. II
the blocks numbered five and six be sold to
geteer 10 one purchaser, the street running be-
tween said blocks, AMI the alley running through
block five, may be djsregarded, At the election OF
such purchaser, 70 be made and declared At the
time o the purchase. If he 20 elect TO disregard
lard clOsel said street and alley, then the south
end Of said street where Il passes through block
seven, frsnting on Zane street. and extending
north TO the alley parallel With Zane street, will
be sold as a lot or lots.
There are on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and thi,ty tree, Of which about
eighty are Lombardy Poplar, Of the rem inder
the greater part are Maple. Allof aid trees are
well grown, probably more than half Of them
having trunks q foot or more in diameter.
K OF SALE-Fach purchaser 70 pay I'm
aud one third, AZ leac OF his purchase money,
and es ruchm more thereof as he may choose, n
the residue, II any, in two equal instalments,
bearing interest from the day Of sale, and pay.
able respectively, in one and two ysars thereaf,
ter, the deferred payments 70 be secured by
notes with good personal security. But II any
purchaser pay In hand one-halt, or more, of his
purchase money, his notes for the deferred install
ments ofthes same shall be taken without personal
security. In every case, however, the tile must
be retained a. security until payment in full
GEORGE b. CALDWELL.
wM. ERsKISE,
Special Commissioners
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